{"id":103338,"date":"2019-01-25T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sherborne-dorset-packed-with-stories-of-its-ancient-past\/"},"modified":"2019-01-26T00:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:03:45","slug":"sherborne-dorset-packed-with-stories-of-its-ancient-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sherborne-dorset-packed-with-stories-of-its-ancient-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherborne, Dorset: packed with stories of its ancient past"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith its glorious abbey and historic architecture this former Saxon capital could even be a little too perfectWhat\u2019s going for it? Sherborne may be small, but what it lacks in girth it makes up for in history. This place is spilling over with stories. Back in 800 or so it was A Big Deal, a megalopolis of Saxon Wessex, with a cathedral and everything (in 1075 the cathedral was demoted to an abbey \u2013 still there, still luscious). This was the front line in the unification of England, holding back the invading Danes from the east. Alfred the Great\u2019s brothers are buried in the Abbey. And we haven\u2019t even got to the second millennium yet. (Don\u2019t get me going on Sir Walter Raleigh\u2019s two castles. One is never enough, I find.) These days Sherborne\u2019s a quieter affair, up at the top of Dorset, a little off the beaten track now that the A303 to the north saps the traffic from the A30. It\u2019s quite content, though, a prosperous place where Fired Earth does a roaring trade. It has its past for company, materialised in its glorious, ochre architecture. When old age looks this good, who\u2019s want youth?The case against\u2026 A little dull. A little perfect. One can have enough shops selling beige country casuals. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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